Quotes about Resilience

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

My friends have made the story of my life.

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

when one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one the one which has opened for us.

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us.

Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.